Tusa Dive

Dive or Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef with the experts! With more than 30 years experience, a choice of 16 outer reef locations, modern comfortable vessels, and a friendly professional team to look after you, you are in for an exceptional Great Barrier Reef adventure with Tusa Dive.

Your day begins with a cruise to the outer reef on board one of Cairns’ newest reef crafts - Tusa 6, which was custom-built for ultimate comfort and easy access to the water. To ensure plenty of space for all, guest numbers are limited to just 60, although the boat is surveyed for 100. Two new sites are selected each day, as being the best for the day’s conditions. Activities include marine interpretation presentations, guided snorkel tours, introductory diving, and certified diving with up to three dives in the day available.

Tusa Dive is an Advanced Ecotourism Operator, committed to providing a service that reflects our responsibility to contribute to the protection of the environment.

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Experience the magic of the Great Barrier Reef with Cairns' premier dive company. Each day the high speed luxury dive vessel MV Tusa travels to two new outer reef destinations, selected from Tusa's 16 fabulous sites. Snorkelling is directly from the large platform at the back of the boat and all your expectations will be surpassed as you encounter a vast diversity of marine life and stunning coral gardens. The day includes quality snorkel equipment, wetsuits or lycra suits, guided snorkel tours, Marine interpretation presentations, buffet style lunch, morning and afternoon tea. Tusa Dive is world renowned for their personalised service and highest levels of professionalism.

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Experience the magic of The Great Barrier Reef with Cairns' premier dive company. With a selection of 16 unique outer reef sites, TUSA will choose the best two sites for the weather conditions of the day. Water level platforms allow you to glide right from of the boat to the reef. If you've never dived before, you can also choose to make your reef trip the ultimate experience and take an Introductory Dive (or two!). No experience required! You will have an experienced instructor by your side, and soon you will be eyeball to eyeball with the fish on the Great Barrier Reef. The day includes quality diving equipment and wetsuits, guided snorkel tours, buffet style lunch, morning and afternoon tea. TUSA Dive are certified as an Advanced Eco Tourism operator and include educational marine talks in your day.

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Experience the magic of The Great Barrier Reef with Cairns' premier dive company. Each day the high speed luxury dive vessel, T6 takes you to the best two sites for the day's weather conditions, selected from a range of 16 unique sites. You will explore vast coral gardens, walls, caverns and isolated pinnacles, all teeming with amazing marine biodiversity.

The day includes quality dive equipment, wetsuits, and/or lycra suits, guided snorkel tours as well as a Reef talk and presentation, buffet style lunch, morning and afternoon tea. Divers can choose to take two or three dives in the day with optional guided dives. Nitrox fills and three day packages are also available. Tusa Dive is world renowned for their personalised service and highest levels of professionalism.

This park features the rugged Mount Cook, which provides a scenic backdrop to the town of Cooktown. Rainforest and tropical woodlands with a heath understorey cover the upper slopes and sheltered gullies.

This park, on the scenic coast just north of Mission Beach, contains some of the few remaining patches of undisturbed tropical lowland rainforest in North Queensland. These rainforest remnants are important habitat for the endangered southern cassowary.

This island national park, located close to the mainland, is rugged with diverse landscapes featuring granite outcrops, open woodlands, rainforest, mangroves and coral beaches. The island and its surrounding waters form part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Mount Lewis, one high rainforest-clad mountains of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, is a treasure trove of unique and endemic wildlife. The area between the Mount Lewis and Atherton Tableland is especially diverse.

Plunging over the edge of a columnar basalt lava flow, Big Millstream Falls is reputedly the widest single-drop waterfall in Australia. Lying in the rain shadow of the eastern dividing ranges, the dry open woodland here is in stark contrast with the rainforest which is only kilometres away.

The rainforest-clad slopes of the Whitfield Range form a dramatic backdrop to Cairns, offering bushwalking opportunities close to the city. Walking tracks through Mount Whitfield Conservation Park climb through shady rainforest gullies and dry open forest and grasslands with cycads to the top of Mount Lumley Hill.

Michaelmas Cay, part of Michaelmas and Upolo Cays National Park, is one of the most important seabird breeding sites in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Michaelmas Cay is a small, low sand cay, covered by grasses and low-growing plants.

In this park, an imposing mountain range of massive granite boulders is home to unique wildlife and rich in Aboriginal culture. Located near Cooktown at the northern end of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Black Mountain is imposing mountain range of black granite boulders, some the size of houses, stacked seemingly precariously on one another.

This park features the stunning Blencoe Falls, where Blencoe Creek plunges 90 metres into a pool before cascading a further 230 metres to the bottom of Blencoe Gorge before joining the Herbert River in the spectacular Herbert River Gorge.

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